Bar Konai appears to have lived during the reign of Timothy I (780–823), Patriarch of the Church of the East, though some scholars have placed him a century later.
Assemani identified him with a bishop named Theodore, the nephew of the patriarch Yohannan IV (900–5), who was appointed to the diocese of Lashom in Beth Garmaï in 893, and his dating was followed by Wright.
[2] Theodore was the author of the Scholion (Kṯāḇā d-ʾeskoliyon), a set of scholia on both the Old and New Testaments (edited between 1908 and 1912 by the celebrated scholar Addai Scher), believed to have been written circa 792.
[3] Theodore, c. 792 in the Book of the Scholion, mentions the Mandaean uthras Abatur (Abitur) and Ptahil (Ptaḥil) (cf.
[4]: 125 Theodore writes that the followers of Ado's religion are known as Mandaeans or Mašknaeans in Meshan (around present-day Basra), and as Nāṣrāye, Adonaeans (or Adoites), and Dostaeans in Bet Arāmāye (i.e., Asoristan, around Ctesiphon in central Mesopotamia).